Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-23
Is it in the Home, or Before the Pub
lic?--- Ella WheeIer's Interesting
AnsWer--ShouId WomenEarn
Money Outside the Home?-Women
Who Long for the Plaudits of the
World-A Word to Stingy
Husbands.
They Are Often the Cause of Women Seek
ting Public Lifs-Co bo Queen Of Nsp.
py Eome, the Grandest and Zruest
Sphere Possible for Women
Copyrighted, 1887.

Ing rebellion against her environments
and Graves g change OF condition, tn
change will come. We may whine snC
complain st Fate all our lives withou
ever accomplishing anything. But tn
soul that looks steadily in the face OF it
desire, makes no complaint, re cogujzes Il,
ill-fortune, but demands from life tn,
thing 1t Graves, and believes it will b.
glven-that soul will obtain its wish 81
sure as the sun shines.
There are no circumstances which caT
overthrow or circumvent the passionate
resolve OF noble, earnest soul.
believe We are only denied the thing!
we crave, in order to test the strength O.
our desire. There are no accidents o.
birth Or fortune. A mighty Intelligence
directs it ell, and grants to each sou
its wish, il that soul never sWerves from
the intensity of desire.
The reason so few OF Us obtain VIVA
we want, is because SO few CT US are per
sistent and patient.
Ii any Womsn is placed in situation
where she is deprived of the comforts
and the appreciation so ecessary TO ou1
happiness, and she longs ardently enough
to better her condition, the way will be
opened fer her, and it will be right and
wise for her to walk therein.
cannot understand how & woman VINO
has been accorded that greatest Of sll
gifts from heaven, e happy home life, can
desire any career which interferes with il.
The result Of my observation does not
leadsme to believe that women who ere
sheltered with love and protection and 8p-
precistiOn, do long for the plauditS Of the
world.
| great deal is ssid and written of the
young sgirl or wOrshiped wife VINO neg
lects kind parents or devoted husband
to pursue q career. II you will take pains
10 investigate the unWritten history OF
such cases, you will find in almost every
| instance skeleton whose rafting bones
drove that daughter or wife from her homo
into public life.
Men are given to making sarcastic re-
marks concerning the great horde of
women lecturers, actors, readers and
performers OF ell kinds now before the
public. Our daily papers TEEN with para-
graphs OF ridicule or advice to women to
stay ct home and attend to their families
II every man who takes upon himself
the voluntary obligations Of mstrimony
performed his whole duty as husband and
father. there would be fewer women be-
fore the public to-day. The girl or wife
who has to tease, beg Or pCut in order 30
obtain few dollars for her own use,
naturally lies awake nights planning some
method of earning money.
l knew the dsughter CT man whose
riches we're counted among the hundreds
OF thousands, end yet she WAS obliged to
nd Hy-r7 IoLi
schemes TO get dollar Of pin money
She was allowed to run large bills, which
her father scanned snd mathematical
item by item each month, but he did not
consider the female members Of his
household competent to csrry 8 purse.
When the daughter ran away, end went
world WAS shocked that she should leave
the glare OF the footlights.
l overheard a well dressed and fine
locking man recently, in railroad Car,
scolding his wife for an extravagant pur-
chase. She showed him the sample of q
with timld look if he thought it was
pretty.
GLOW much did you pay for it ?" he
deprecating glance, brought forth such a
growl and sheer that the poor wife's
pleasure in her purchase must have been
Instantly ruined. [ an quite sure I'll
should have put the dress up at auction,
and presented Sir GroWler with the pro-
ceeds of the sale, and then l would have
Joined the circus or minstrel troop, If
could find no better method of earning 6.
dress for myself.
Two women, who are working outside
of homes for livlihood, told me recently
with tears in their eyes, that they would
consider Themselves the most blest of
mortals 10 be shut within the walls CT
some humble cottage, where only faint
echoes from the world could reach them.
Both women we're driven from their
homes by the skeleton of poverty. And
yet l have heard one of these women
commented On severely IS SIS bold seeker
after notoriety" She is simply doing
what she is compelled to do to keep the
wolf from the door.
There is occasionally born into the
world q woman whose whole nature
rushes like the tide OF a mighty ocean to-
ward the shore Of some especial career.
Rosa Bonheur wss one of these, the first
Mrs. Siddons was another, Anna Dickin-
son was another. In each OF these women
the force Of her peculiar genius was so
crest that no perfection of home life, no
opulence of wealth could have kept her
from fulfilling her destiny. They aid not
choose a career, s career chose them.
Many other names could be added to the
list, yet such richly and remarkably dow
cred women are the exception.
The rule is, that the women who pur-
sue the hard path Of public career,
which deprives them of q quiet domestic
life, are women who have been driven
into it by stern necessity.
To be queen of 8 happy home, loved
and appreciated by "a kind husband and
little children, to live only for their ap-
probation and respect, surely this is the
grandest and truest sphere possible for
woman. It is the only genuine heppi-
ness which earth affords, all else is q
mere imitation. In no reform can women
do work so beneficial to mankind as in
creasing the number Of happy homes in
the land.
But this work is not given every
woman TO do. Good husbands, who will
love, respect, appreciate and support their
wives and daughters, do not stand on
every threshold ready to lead all women
into this earthly paradise. And there
fore it is every womsn's duty to be pre-
pared to meet the world single-handed.
Ii were blessed with q daughter, /
should teach her some method of self
support IS religiouslv as should teach
her to love God. But my daily prayer